Dom makes the case in City AM against gender quotas and positive discrimination, and in favour of practical support to help working couples deal with the rising cost of childcare. Read the artice here.

14 September 2011: Daily Telegraph: Dom argues for a Foreign Policy that puts the UK national interest First

Dom previews the foreign policy chapter in a new book, co-authored with four other 2010 intake MPs, arguing for a foreign policy that puts the British national interest first. You can read the article here in the Daily Telegraph.

23 August 2011: Daily Telegraph: Dom says taxpayers money should be spent on police and prisons, not unions

Dom argues against taxpayers’ money at the Ministry of Justice and Home Office being spent subsidising unions, when it should be focused on prison places and police officers - reported in the Daily Telegraphhere and Daily Mail here.

Dom joins fellow colleagues from the 2010 intake in writing to the FT, calling for the UK taxpayer to be spared the cost of further Euro bailouts and making the case for wider reform of the EU here, with further reporting here.

Dom calls for strike law reform to prevent militant union bosses holding the hard-working majority to ransom. Read the report in City AM here and the Daily Telegraph here, and Dom’s article in the Timeshere.

Following Dom’s campaign, the government have shelved Labour’s plans to audit 27,000 schools, police forces and councils according to race, religion, sex, sexuality and political beliefs. Read the report here.

11 February 2011: Dom makes the case for Parliament to decide on Prisoner Votes

Dom winds up the House of Commons debate on Prisoner Voting, arguing against prisoner voting and for elected lawmakers rather than unaccountable judges to decide the issue. You can read the sketchwriter’s report in the Daily Mailhere, the Daily Telegraph commentary here and reporting by Con Homehere.

12 January 2011: Daily Telegraph: Dom calls for scaling back of the Equality Act

Dom calls for the scaling back of Labour’s Equality, which is forcing thousands of public bodies to audit their staff on for breakdowns of race, gender and religous beliefs. Read the articles here and here.

19 June 2010: Week in Westminster, Radio 4: Dom debates the UK/US Special Relationship

Dom debates the state of the UK/US Special Relationship, in the aftermath of the BP crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, with Emma Reynolds MP and Peter Riddell of the Times. You can listen here (from 14 minutes 40 seconds).

In his weekly column in The Observer, Henry Porter criticises the Human Rights Act - highlighting the distinction Dom makes in The Assault on Liberty between ‘liberty’ and ‘rights’. Read the full article.

10 December 2009: BBC Radio Surrey: Dom cautions against local police station closures

Speaking to BBC Radio Surrey, Dom welcomes plans for the reform of Surrey police force to reduce bureaucracy and senior management, in order to provide additional officers on the street. But he cautions against the impact of station closures in Elmbridge. Listen to the interview (from 1hr, 38 mins, 40 secs).

6 December 2009: The Sunday Times ‘Christmas 2009’ reading list recommends The Assault on Liberty

The Sunday Times Christmas 2009 reading list today plugs The Assault on Liberty as one of its ‘current affairs’ books of the year:

‘Resistance to new Labour’s systematic attack on our civil liberties found voice in several books illuminating what we have lost because of the most repressive government in recent times. Dominic Raab’s The Assault on Liberty (Fourth Estate £8.99) was the most succinct and intelligent. The author is a constitutional lawyer who helped David Davis when he resigned his seat and triggered a by-election to highlight what the government has been up to. Raab is especially good at explaining how the government’s emphasis on “rights” has been used as a distraction from its erosion of our liberty.’

Dom welcomes the reduction of disruption following Southern Gas’s decision to limit the works on Seven Hills Road from 7 months to 12 weeks, but criticises the ‘clumsy handling’ of the public consultation. Read the article in the Surrey Herald.

Dom wins the ‘open primary’, held at Sandown Park, to represent the Conservatives at the next general election. Read the articles in the Surrey Advertiser here, Surrey Herald here, and The Spectator here.

18 January 2009: Dom launches The Assault on Liberty with an article in The Sunday Times and an interview in the Sunday Herald

Dom launches his new book, The Assault on Liberty – What Went Wrong With Rights, with an article for The Sunday Times. Read the full article. You can also read his interview with the Sunday Herald here.